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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 13:45:24 -0700
Subject: Re: Sage... and Judy-ism too....
M*M
Hello, sticking faithfully to the Occulthaven tradition of adulterating
my silliness with a little Occultism...
Have thought over Salvias a little, I suggest Clary Sage or Turkestan
Clary (**Pope Sage**
Now, I did a websearch on Judy-ism, and I must admit it was rather
challenging, but I thought the following that I found might prove
interesting...
(sender: DBTOWACUTR: Database of Totally
Off-The-Wall-And-Clear-Under-The-Table Religions)
JUDY-ISM: The principle pantheon of Judy-ism is as follows:
1. A scarecrow
2. A tin man
3. A cowardly lion
4. Dorothy, the Supreme Goddess
5. A good man but a very bad wizard, the Supreme God
6. Toto, the evil one, who has personally lifted his leg on the entirety
of the afforementioned characters
7. The wicked witch of the west, a minor mortal character serving as a
Gardnerian proptotype
The ten principle beliefs of Judy-ism are as follows:
1. Ruby slippers are the most powerful magickal items it is possible to
own.
2. A house is a good counter-magic to use on witches.
3. One's spirtual path can be most closely adhered to by following the
yellow brick road.
4. The wicked witch of the west doesn't have a whole closet full of
brooms for some strange reason.
5. We're not in Kansas anymore.
6. There's no place like home.
7. Anytime you want to find happiness, you must never look further than
your own back yard, even if it Is a stinking old pig wallow.
8. Anytime you are up to your *ss in trouble, a good witch will descend
in clouds of gossamer and glitter to bail your *ss out, but then and
only then, after you've probably already wet yourself.
9. The hypotenuse of an Isoceles triangle is equal to the square of the
sum of the two remaining sides.
10. oh, $&#$&# #$&#&#&$ #%&*#!!!, I should have tied down that &$%&$%
hot air baloon...
(and the unofficial but mandatory eleventh precept,
11: Margaret Hamilton looks the same with or without makeup.)
Requirements for preisthood/ priestesshood:
Women: An *ss-kicking pair of spiked-heeled red shoes and an uncanny
ability to tap dance in them
Men: The ability to chant, O-Le-O, E-O-O anywhere lower than an octave
below middle C
(Curiously, the followers of Judy-ism are almost entirely men...)
Apply to:
The Judy Garland *Getting-Preposterously-Carried-
Away-With-This-Fan-Club-Thing* Fan Club
PO Box XXXX
Hollywood, (where else?), CA, (where else?)
XXXXX
Peace!
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 18:41:44 -0700
Subject: Re: Need Help
Hi All...
I'm glad to see people have been answering this one... being always one
to bring up the rear, I thought I'd throw out a couple of thoughts...
I've had problems with alcoholism in the past. And I'm one of those
people A.A. couldn't have helped in a million years. It's hard to be
force-fed *The Good Book* with the program, and then want to treat *The*
God like a cheap substitute for a drunk or a high. I read the N.A.
manual and gagged on it, yelling, "God IS NOT DOPE".
(Or the preposterous hypocrisy of being fed the *evil* of drugs in N.A.
because they don't happen to feel like recognizing that Rastafarianism
is a religion too with a right to sacrament just like Catholics and
wine.
I couldn't find any conception of working with what separates the shaman
working with entheogens/ pyschotropics from the person drowing in their
problems, namely that the shaman does what he does with a steadfast
sense of purpose,
What changed my life is when I realized it was time to fight, even
though I knew no one would really offer me help, or cared if they did...
and when I resisted for the first time in my life, I instantly saw the
process become so exaggerated that it couldn't hide. I was actaully
telling myself, *hey, you gotta go to the liquor store, you gotta man,
you're an alcoholic, you love it you need it, you gotta have it, hurry
up man, the liquor store is closing", etc, ad nauseum.
There was no meditative introspection necessary to observe the subtle
processes of the mind trying to defeat itself, no twelve steps, none of
it. What I saw in an instant made me so sickened that I rebelled,
compensated, went to the opposite extreme, and said to myself, "Hey,
you're a sober, dry guy. You're NOT an alcoholic...now just don't say
that with a drink in your hand anymore, or you'll be a hypocrite; you
DON'T need a drink, you just need to stop telling yourself you do".
For the first two weeks it was shaky, I had to go in the bathroom, growl
at the mirror, and slam one fist into the other palm as I chanted the
affirmation; I had to be passionate
And while the outreach ministry downstairs handed me a Bible for my well
being, and sent me off to dig for this wisdom like a needle in a
haystack when I was too screwed up to hold the book rightside up, was
written,
****"As a man thinkest in his heart, So Is He"*****... (Of all the talk
about the methods Christians use, look at what they Don't use!!!)
*****I don't think I need a drink anymore!!!!!*****... Fortunately other
walks of life with or without religions have their own words for it....
Not twelve steps. ONE STEP. Just in case the A*A can't pull this one off
either... Worked for me, anyway. And sometimes I take l-glutamine from
the healthfood store around the time I drink, so I won't have that
hangover the next day that tempts me with the hair of the dog trick,
namely, drinking to cure a hangover. Good food sources of the amino acid
l-glutamine are melons and squashes.
Love and Blessings,
&
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~Fight World Hunger,
Give Seeds, the Gift that Keeps on Giving! The World Seed Fund, c/o
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*****
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 19:29:22 -0700
Subject: Re: Returned mail: User unknown
M*M
I wish I was ambitious enought to go dig in my Greek Anthology, (Loeb
edition) I think that's where there's one about a mother bird who froze
so that her chicks could live. Animal martyrdom. I think he actually
scolded the Gods because their reputations couldn't match up!
Doobie Brothers: Without love, where would you be now?
Jackson Browne: I love ya, man, what else would I do?
Good magick.
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~Fight World Hunger,
Give Seeds, the Gift that Keeps on Giving! The World Seed Fund, c/o
Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772/ 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368. Donations accepted include Seeds; write for details.
*****
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:47:46 -0700
Subject: Golden Dawn Shamans
M*M
Having mentioned this discovery yesterday in the Pop-Tarts post, of
reference to shamanic practices in a Golden Dawn manuscript, I find
myself in apparent need of help to make further progress...
C. L. Zalewski, *Herb in Magic and Alchemy*, appendix 4, *Astral Contact
With Plant Life* refers to a Golden Dawn manuscript called *the Book of
Wylyn* and apparently reprints part of it.
But the bibliography doesn't clearly identify if this is one of the
"Unpublished manuscripts of the Golden Dawn from "Whare Ra" and
"Thoth/Hermes" Temples, New Zealand. Or how long ago the manuscript was
written. Or it's author. Or further explain *Wylyn*; is that Welsh? And
it means?
The introduction refers to Florence Farr and Dr. Burridge in ths
contact, whom I've never heard of and don't know of any of their works.
Is the publication actually *The Ayton Papers*, published by Ellic Howe?
Does anyone have any information on this manuscript, these matters, or
these persons?
( have nothing against this inquiry being forwarded to other lists as
well...)
Sincere thanks,
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~Fight World Hunger,
Give Seeds, the Gift that Keeps on Giving! The World Seed Fund, c/o
Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772/ 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368. Donations accepted include Seeds; write for details.
*****
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 14:22:24 -0700
Subject: Re: Golden Dawn Shamans
…prank of
being set off to make Enochian evocations/ invocations for a wasteful
period of one's life and one day a *master* pops up and puckishly
announces how gullible he thinks I am for doing so, instead of doing
Magickal Eymology on the syllables. (the old joke about *Smart Pills*
comes to mind, along with many complaints from the G. D. roster
admonishing the ambitions of initiates, Crowley on would-be goldmakers
must be fully notorious... Seems they might have found dishing out the
shamanic ordeal of disgusing the teachings fair in the face of their own
traditional shamanic ordeal of getting anyone interested in them.)
Moreso that the Kessinger catalog I dug up Does carry one of Farr's
books, *Egyptian Magic*; the elaborate, giddy and amusing lists of
equivalencies that begin Egyptian evocations should be notorious for
being little more than execises in oral tradition, much as Native
American animal costumes often serve.
In context, I think the identification of *Wylyn* as Waylan may indeed
be correct, *Norse Magic* by D. J. Conway, pg 164, lists Healing among
his attributes. I don't suppose I should assign it to coincidence that
the name resounds with the same root as *wellness* and *wholeness*; it
may have further been chosen to imply that these tradtions were well
founded in Germanic & Celtic societies, and is reflected in myth.
I also expect this to be reflected in Yeat's work, although my texts sit
in the towering stack that may have to wait for this winter for me to
read. One reprieve is that the tradition is that one should be able to
spot allusory texts by title, or other conspicuous clues; "The Old Age
of Queen Maeve" being conspicuous for its ideosyncracy of the aging of
an ageless faerie.
My browsing of the titles seem to touch more on echoes of an eagerness
to tie the phenomena in with other outstanding phenomena, I suspect the
*Swimming of Medicines*, and to draw it to it's logical conclusions;
surely the term *Astral Hypochondria* must be reserved for the highest
order, but within That I see a basis for advancing both the construction
of amulets that use the contact method between man and plant to ward
against all illness, and those concerning love which benefit physically
shift the method of contacting past life or contemporary persons out of
the mode of contacting plants, where the effect is unconcious and
precipitative of illness. Of course I am merely speculating at this
point.
Certainly, Yeat's interest may be revealed through a glance at the table
of contents of his collection of *Fairy and Folktales of the Irish
Peasantry* for example, replete with a whole chapter on "WITCHES, FAIRY
DOCTORS"
...But I hold the hope at the moment that in Yeat's works will be
revealed another group of icon-keys to myth and legend that have
elsewhere been untended or obscure...
Within the system of appropros that is preferred, it might be that
Waylan, the rare smith/healer, is chosen because the smithy represents
his iron, which represents magnetism; indeed this is exactly what the
Theosophists profess about such contaanct between persons, and of
course, this *Astral* contact with plants, that the effect is magnetic
in nature... another truth, if true, that would avail much instantly
about working in harmony with these effects and forces...
...And that the conspicuous weight of the iron serves as a symbol for
the weight, gravity, Cartesian and other expressions concerning the
*Swimming Ordeal* for the evaluation of approriateness of various
materials and objects to corresponding situations...
...And whatever multitude of traditional truths might be implied through
such scant references... Which ideally are made with the intent that a
word to the wise will suffice...
Of course, what do I know, having left my brain in my other pants,
leaving me free and positioned to speculate my *ss off...
Moron the story as it develops...
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~Fight World Hunger,
Give Seeds, the Gift that Keeps on Giving! The World Seed Fund, c/o
Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772/ 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368. Donations accepted include Seeds; write for details.
*****
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